"To most of America, war has become not only tolerable but profitable, and so there is no longer any great incentive to end it."

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Source : James Risen (2014). “Pay Any Price: Greed, Power, and Endless War”, p.15, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

James Risen

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“Change does not change tradition, it strengthens it. Change is a challenge and anopportunity, not a threat.”
“What we get, we members of the Church, compared with the total mass that is distributed, is almost microscopic, but the spirit in which we might take it, the spirit in which we might spend it, is the leaven that might leaven the whole lump. Let us be patriotic; let us love the government under which we live.”
“Give thy mind to books and libraries, and the literature and lore of the ages will give thee the wisdom of sage and seer.”

Source : Newell Dwight Hillis (2012). “The Investment of Influence A Study of Social Sympathy and Service”, p.42, tredition
“The only thing I'm running for is the state line.”
“I wasn't that wild about that. I told them basically if they were really going to want to bring back heavy metal to a program on MTV, then they are really going to have to get in touch with what real heavy metal is.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The greatest moments in life are the ones right in front of you.”
“If you look back on the period, the 1980s has never been seen as cool. You think of the music, and it always has a kitsch quality to it because everyone looks so ridiculous. Even the Nineties, with The Stone Roses and other bands, was cool before the Eighties. It really missed the boat! The Sixties was always cool, even then. That was my Dad's era and I was always jealous of that. But now, as an adult, looking back, we were part of this mental time. It was the most enormous amount of tribes that could have ever existed in one place.”
“I get glimpses of the horror of normalcy. Each of these innocents on the street is engulfed by a terror of their own ordinariness. They would do anything to be unique.”

Source : Katherine Dunn (2011). “Geek Love: A Novel”, p.309, Vintage

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